Making Smart Publishing Choicesto Achieve YOUR Scholary Goals

Nancy Sims – nasims@umn.edu - @CopyrightLibnLiz Fine Weinfurter - eweinfur@umn.edu

WARMUP

Do you own any copyrights?

1.Yes 2.No

Do you need a publication?

1.Yes 2.No

Have you ever paid a fee to get a publication?

1.Yes 2.No

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Copyright is automatic

Copyright owners have…

Rights to do/authorize others to: 17 USC §106

– Reproduce (make copies)

– Distribute (sell, rent, lend copies)

– Perform or display publicly– Prepare derivative works

(translations, adaptations)Optic CC BY-SA Germán Meyer

If you create a work today, and die in 2035, when will the copyright in that work expire?

1.2039

2.2067

3.2085

4.2105

Life + 70

Are you a UMN employee when creating publications?

1.Yes 2.No

University of Minnesota CC BY-NC-SA Brian Moen

U of M Copyright Policy – Nuts & Bolts

• Faculty and faculty-like individuals own their academic works. – Works produced “on the clock” by non-faculty

individuals are owned by the University.

• University owns all administrative works.

Open Access Publishing

• Publications that are online, free of cost for all readers

– (reuse rights)

• MANY “business models”

– Gold/Green

– “Hybrid”

– “Author Pays”/APC

• Most fields see some OA citation advantage

Your GOALS when publishing

Your GOALS when publishing

● “Get a publication”– Prestigious venue

– High-impact venue

● Alternate metrics

● Communicate research– Share knowledge

– Global access

● Get a job/funding/tenure– Get citations

– Etc

● Build on own/others' work

Your rights when publishing

• Think about the bundle– Teaching rights– Derivative works– Sharing online

• Check publisher policies– Many allow authors

significant re-use – Publishers have

discretion to change anything not in a contract

PREDATORYPUBLISHERS

When authors do not pay a fee prior to

publication, how is the publication paid for?

Have you gotten a publishing invitation that

seemed to good to be true?

1.Yes 2.No

Assessing a questionable publisher

• “Too good to be true” invitations!

• Check existing content

• Editor contactability

– Editorial board

• Review processes

– Fee timing

• Do they run schmancy conferences?

Assessing a questionable publisher: questionable assessment points

• Visual design

• Heavily/solely developing-nations scholars

• Impact Factor

• Highly similar to other journal names

• (BEALL)

Assessing a questionable publisher: RESOURCES

• Directory of Open Access Journals• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association• Committee on Publication Ethics • INANE/NA&E Directory of Nursing Journals

• “Assessing a Publisher” - https://www.lib.umn.edu/publishing/choices/assessing

• Think Check Submit - http://thinkchecksubmit.org/

QUESTIONS?